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1) Evolutionary catastrophes: the science of mass extinction

Author

Courtillot, V

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Pub. Date

1999.

Physical Desc

xiv, 173 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Language

English

2) Night comes to the Cretaceous: dinosaur extinction and the transformation of modern geology

Author

Powell, James Lawrence

Publisher

W.H. Freeman

Pub. Date

[1998]

Physical Desc

xvi, 250 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Language

English

3) The three big bangs: comet crashes, exploding stars, and the creation of the universe

Author

Dauber, Philip M

Series

Helix book

Pub. Date

[1996]

Language

English

4) Rivers in time: the search for clues to earth's mass extinctions

Author

Ward, Peter D

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Pub. Date

[2000]

Edition

Updated and revised edition.

Physical Desc

viii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Language

English

5) Cosmic collisions

Author

Desonie, Dana

Series

Scientific American focus book

Publisher

Henry Holt & Co

Pub. Date

1996.

Edition

First edition.

Physical Desc

127 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.

Language

English

6) Voices of the rocks: a scientist looks at catastrophes and ancient civilizations

Author

Schoch, Robert M

Publisher

Harmony Books

Pub. Date

[1999]

Edition

First edition.

Physical Desc

xi, 258 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Language

English

7) The search for the killer asteroid

Author

Vogt, Gregory

Publisher

Millbrook Press

Pub. Date

[1994]

Physical Desc

71 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Language

English

8) Mysteries of terra firma: the age and evolution of the world

Author

Powell, James Lawrence

Publisher

Free Press

Pub. Date

[2001]

Physical Desc

xiii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Language

English

9) Disturbing the solar system: impacts, close encounters, and coming attractions

Author

Rubin, Alan E

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Pub. Date

[2002]

Physical Desc

xv, 361 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Language

English

10) When life nearly died: the greatest mass extinction of all time

Author

Benton, M. J

Publisher

Thames & Hudson

Pub. Date

[2003]

Physical Desc

336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Language

English

11) Gorgon: paleontology, obsession, and the greatest catastrophe in earth's history

Author

Ward, Peter D

Publisher

Viking

Pub. Date

[2004]

Physical Desc

xxvii, 257 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Language

English

12) Last extinction: [what killed the mammoths?]

Publisher

WGBH Boston Video

Pub. Date

2009.

Physical Desc

1 DVD (56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Language

English

Description

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"Nova investigates a provocative new theory that suggests the extinction of more than 34 types of large prehistoric mega-creatures, such as the saber-toothed cat and woolly mammoth, was caused not by climate change or the arrival of the first human hunters, but by the massive breakup of a comet over the Great Lakes region at the end of the last Ice Age, some 12,900 years ago." WGBH/Nova website.

13) Extinction: how life on earth nearly ended 250 million years ago

Author

Erwin, Douglas H

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Pub. Date

[2006]

Physical Desc

viii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Language

English

14) If an asteroid hit Earth

Author

Spangenburg, Ray

Series

Out of this world (Out of this world (Franklin Watts, Inc.)

Publisher

Franklin Watts

Pub. Date

[2000]

Physical Desc

112 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm.

Language

English

Description

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Examines the origins of asteroids, their effects on hitting the Earth in the past and the present, and many of the asteroids in the solar system.

15) T. rex and the crater of doom

Author

Alvarez, Walter

Language

English

16) The end of the dinosaurs: Chicxulub crater and mass extinctions

Author

Frankel, Charles

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Pub. Date

1999.

Physical Desc

xii, 223 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Language

English

17) What if an asteroid hit earth?

Author

Cefrey, Holly

Series

What if?

Publisher

Children's Press

Pub. Date

[2002]

Physical Desc

48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.

Language

English

Description

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Discusses what might happen if an asteroid hit the Earth.

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1) Evolutionary catastrophes: the science of mass extinction

2) Night comes to the Cretaceous: dinosaur extinction and the transformation of modern geology

3) The three big bangs: comet crashes, exploding stars, and the creation of the universe

4) Rivers in time: the search for clues to earth's mass extinctions

5) Cosmic collisions

6) Voices of the rocks: a scientist looks at catastrophes and ancient civilizations

7) The search for the killer asteroid

8) Mysteries of terra firma: the age and evolution of the world

9) Disturbing the solar system: impacts, close encounters, and coming attractions

10) When life nearly died: the greatest mass extinction of all time

11) Gorgon: paleontology, obsession, and the greatest catastrophe in earth's history

12) Last extinction: [what killed the mammoths?]

13) Extinction: how life on earth nearly ended 250 million years ago

14) If an asteroid hit Earth

15) T. rex and the crater of doom

16) The end of the dinosaurs: Chicxulub crater and mass extinctions

17) What if an asteroid hit earth?

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